Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
VOLUME 49 PART 1 1992 Yorkshire Geological Society
FOUNDED 1837
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL Elected 7th December, 1991
President Mr B. YOUNG
Vice-Presidents Dr P. R. INESON Dr M.ROMANO General Secretary Mr A. C. BENFIELD School of Geography and Earth Resources, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX
Programme Secretary Dr H. M. PEDLEY School of Geography and Earth Resources, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX
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Librarian Dr W. J. VARKER Department of Earth Sciences, The University, Leeds LS2 9JT
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Cover illustration. Crystals of iron-boracite ((Fe,Mg,Mn)3B7013Cl) from Boulby Mine, Cleveland [NZ 7()2 182]. Nodules up to almost lm across, which consist of a variable mixture of iron-boracite, magnesite, talc, hematite, sylvite and halite occur locally within the potash seam and overlying shales. Although iron-boracite is an orthorhombic mineral it very commonly forms interpenetrant pseudocubic crystals. The crystals illustrated were obtained by dissolving the surrounding sylvite in water. The largest crystal is 2mm across. Specimen collected by B. Young, January 1992. SEM photograph by J. M. Pearce (British Geological Survey, Keyworth). See MILNE, J. K., SAUNDERS, M. J. & WOODS, P. J. E. 1977. Iron-boracite from the English Zechstein. MineralogicalMagazine41, 404-406. PROCEEDINGS OF THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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No. 1. Geological Aspects of Development and Planning in Northern England Editor: P. T. Warren. 1970.
No. 2. The Geology and Mineral Resources of Yorkshire Editors: D. H. Raynerand J. E. Hemingway. 1974. (Out of print).
No. 3. The Geology of the Lake District Editor: F. Moseley. 1978. (Out of print).
No. 4. The Carboniferous of the U.S.S.R. Reports presented to the I.U.G.S. Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy at the 8th International Congress on Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology held at Moscow, 1975. Editors: R. H. Wagner, A. C. Higgins and S. V. Meyen. 1979.
No. 5. Andros Island, Chalk and Oceanic Oozes Unpublished work of Maurice Black. Editors: C. V. Jeans and P. F. Rawson. 1980.
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No. 6. The Role of Tectonics in Devonian and Carboniferous Sedimentation in the British Isles. Editors: R. S. Arthurton, P. Gutteridge and S. C. Nolan. 1989.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 49
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H. A. Armstrong and M. A. Purnell Thermal maturation of the Lower Carboniferous strata of the Northumberland Trough and Tweed Basin from conodont colour alteration index (CAI) data 335
V. Burns and R. B. Rickards Silurian graptolite faunas of the Balbriggan Inlier, counties Dublin and Meath, and their evolutionary, stratigraphical and structural significance 283
A. J. Chapman, R. B. Rickards and R. F. Grayson The Carboniferous dendroid graptolites of Britain and Ireland 295
J. M. Davison, P. R. Ineson and J. G. Mitchell Potassium-argon isotopic age determinations from the metasomatic alteration of the Great Limestone, Northern Pennine Orefield 71
A. C. Dunham (Presidential Address, 9th December, 1989) Developments in industrial mineralogy: I. The mineralogy of brickmaking 95
A. C. Dunham (Presidential Address, 8th December, 1990) Developments in industrial mineralogy: II. Archaeological mineralogy 105
A. C. Dunham and F. C. F. Wilkinson
A note on the mineralogy of the chilled margin of the Little Whin Sill at Turn Wheel Linn, Weardale, County Durham 67
S. E. Evans and M. S. King A new specimen of Protorosaurus (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Marl Slate (late Permian) of Britain 229 R. A. Fairbairn and J. Ferguson
The characterisation of calcite-filled fractures from the Northern Pennine Orefield 117
J. Ferguson see R. A. Fairbairn and J. Ferguson 117
C. E. Fordham see B. R. Turner, P. L. Younger and C. E. Ford ham 269
J. R. A. Giles
Late Devensian and early Flandrian environments at Dishforth Bog, North Yorkshire 1
R. F. Grayson see A. J. Chapman, R. B. Rickards and R. F. Grayson 295
D. W. Hoiliday
Geophysical log signatures in the Eden Shales (Permo-Triassic) of Cumbria and their regional significance .... 345
B. Humphreys see G. K. Lott and B. Humphreys 23
P. R. Ineson see J. M. Davison, P. R. Ineson and J. G. Mitehell 71
D. W. Jolley
Spore-dominated assemblages from the lowermost Reading Beds (Palaeocene) of north Essex ...... 149
M. S. King see S. E. Evans and M. S. King 229
M. R. Lee Formation and diagenesis of slope limestones within the Upper Permian (Zechstein) Raisby Formation, north-east
England 215
A. Livingstone see B. Young, A. Livingstone and N. Thomson 125 ThGYorkshir. eK stratigraph. Lotet coasand tBy . anHumphreyd petrologs y of Middle Jurassic (Ravenscar (iGroup) ) sediments in cored boreholes from the North 23 PROCEEDINGS OF THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 49 (continued) page T. McCann
The stratigraphy of the Ordovician rocks around Cardigan, Wales 57
J. G. Mitchell see J. M. Davison, P. R. Ineson and J. G. Mitchell 71
S. Mitchell The belemnite faunal changes across the Hauterivian - Barremian boundary in north-east England 129 J. R. Nudds
Catalogue of type, figured and referred fossils in the Geological Department of the Manchester Museum ..... 81
B. Owens see N. Turner and B. Owens 189
H. M. Pedley Sedimentology of the late Quaternary barrage tufas in the Wye and Lathkill valleys, north Derbyshire 197 J. H. Powell Gyrochorte burrows from the Scarborough Formation (Middle Jurassic) of the Cleveland Basin and their sedimentological setting 41
M. A. Purnell see H. A. Armstrong and M. A. Purnell 335
A. D. Reynolds
Storm, wave and tide-dominated sedimentation in the Dinantian Middle Limestone Group, Northumbrian Basin . . 135
R. B. Rickards see V. Burns and R. B. Rickards 283
R. B. Rickards see A. J, Chapman, R. B. Rickards and R. F. Grayson 295
A. W. A. Rushton Graptolites from the Manx Group 259 D. B. Smith
Alate halite in the late Permian Rotten Marl of Tees-side, north-east England 293
E. Spinner see N. Turner and E. Spinner 11
M. A. Taylor Taxonomy and taphonomy of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus (Plesiosauria, Reptilia) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of the Yorkshire coast 49 L. Thistlewood and M. A. Whyte
A palaeomagnetic and mineral magnetic study of the Speeton Shell Bed, North Yorkshire 325
N. Thomson see B. Young, A. Livingstone and N, Thomson 125
B. R. Turner, P. L. Younger and C. E. Fordham Fell Sandstone lithostratigraphy south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed: implications for the regional development of the Fell Sandstone 269 N. Turner
Cadiospora crypta sp. nov.; a new species of miospore from the Namurian of the central Pennine Basin, England . . 321
N. Turner and B. Owens
Palynological evidence for an early Namurian age of the Cornbrook Sandstone Formation, Clee Hill, Shropshire . . 189
N. Turner and E. Spinner Palynological evidence for the early Namurian age of the "Millstone Grit" and Upper Limestone Group around Longhoughton Steel, Northumberland n F. Whitham The stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Flamborough Chalk Formation north of the Humber, north-east England . 235 (ii) PROCEEDINGS OF THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 49 (continued) page M. A. Whyte see L. Thistlewood and M. A. Whyte 325
P. B. Wignall
The stratigraphy of the Upper Kimmeridge Clay (late Jurassic) of Golden Hill, Vale of Pickering, north Yorkshire 207
F. C. F. Wilkinson see A. C. Dunham and F. C. F. Wilkinson 67
A. A. Wilson (Presidential Address, 10th December, 1988) The Mercia Mudstone Group (Trias) of the Cheshire Basin 171 J. K. Wright The depositional history of the Hackness Coral - Sponge Bed and its associated sediments within the Passage Beds Member of the Coralline Oolite Formation (Corallian Group; Oxfordian) of North Yorkshire 155
B. Young, A. Livingstone and N. Thomson
Fraipontitefrom Wensleydale, North Yorkshire 125
P. L. Younger see B. R. Turner, P. L. Younger and C. E. Fordham 269
Society Proceedings 1991 Annual Report; Honorary Memberships; Medal Presentations; Society Activities 75 Society Proceedings 1992
Annual Report; Honorary Memberships; Medal Presentations; Society Activities 263
Obituaries 76,169
Index for Volume 49 355
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